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[EarlG]

Texas Republicans' plan would slash polling places in areas with higher shares of voters of color

Texas Republicans' plan would slash polling places in areas with higher shares of voters of color: analysis

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Their new slogan: Stop the Vote.

[SergeStorms]

2. Big surprise there, huh?

These are reasons number 1 - 1,000,000 we MUST turn Texas BLUE!

Rotten bastards.

[Harker]

3. It's a short step from criminalizing giving a voter a drink of water

to making it illegal to offer a voter a ride to the polling place.

[sop]

4. WTF is the DOJ doing about this?

[secondwind]

5. Good question!!!

[malaise]

6. THIS n/t

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[Ligyron]

15. + 1k

[marble falls]

7. The new, improved "Gerrymandering".

[llashram]

8. of course

white fear is so palpable it stinks in these areas desiring white dominance over ALL people of color, African-americans specifically. I am so glad RW racists are finally out in the open with their hate. We can now see where America has always been in regard to the need for white dominance over POC since 1619 Jamestown...

[dchill]

9. Frankly obscene.

[benfranklin1776]

10. Pure fascist vote suppression.

This is why it’s imperative to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. The latter would reauthorize the Justice Department to review and nix many of these changes, a power curtailed by that friendly fascist John Roberts. The former would be the most meaningful legislation ever passed to expressly enable people to vote freely and fairly as well as eliminate the corrosive rot of moneyed interests manipulating the political process as the (Confederate) Heritage Foundation, using dark money from billionaires, is doing by drafting and pimping these laws to Rethuglican legislatures all over the country.

So blow up the damn filibuster by forcing these peckerwoods like McConnell and Hawley and Cruz to stand on the floor and defend their odious execrable opposition to them, not hide behind cowardly procedural votes.

Towards that end I suggest we start by applying this reform of the filibuster to the 1/6 insurrection commission. Make McConnell and those who wear the red hat of treason defend hiding his fellow traitors from accountability by having to stand there on the Senate floor and advance whatever Benedict Arnold-like defense he can regurgitate.

The survival of our democracy is on the line.

[keithbvadu2]

11. All voting precincts should have the same number of working voting machines per number of v

Georgia. All voting precincts should have the same number of working voting machines per number of voters and the same access to vote per number of voters.

And other states.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. Tarrant County distributes machines based on voter stats from prior years

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plus the total number of registered voters in a given precinct and has done so for a long time. If a precinct was overloaded, there was nothing we could do. Counties have also had total control over the methods used to run an election.

We now have the capability to move machines from one location to another. All we have to do is notify our Elections Office. The office will send workers out to move the machines; our new machines are self contained in a briefcase-like case. I could fit a dozen of them in my car with no difficulty.

This is the result of our new voting system. Voters can look on line and check wait time at the locations near their homes. The election team at a location with long lines can find out the nearby locations with short lines and give voters the option to go to those locations.

Currently all our large population counties (and at least 45 smaller population counties) have county wide voting, which allows a voter to go to any voting location in the county. This had to be approved by the Texas Secretary of State and the counties had to meet certain requirements, one of which was to acquire equipment capable of pulling up ballots for any precinct in the county. Our Commissioners Court also had to approve it (it passed with only one "no" vote). There are 8 voting locations within a 10 minute drive from my house and 3 more within 15 minutes; in Nov 2020, Tarrant had 300 open voting locations; Harris county ahd 800. If I worked across the county I could vote at a location in that area.

It is possible that we could close some precincts with low turnout and combine them with several others in one nearby location. My nearest voting location has serviced 2 neighboring precincts for at least 20 years.

I have read the bills and I can't find anything which requires county wide voting to be cancelled but I plan to find out from one of our local House Reps or my State Senator. If we are not losing this, we can work around this part of the bill but we will have to do a LOT of voter education. We have had 7 elections with this system here and some of the other counties have had it longer, so consistent voters are familiar with the equipment and the location changes.

I will report back when I know for sure if this legislation includes county wide voting.

[summer_in_TX]

16. That would be a saving grace, if so.

I'd forgotten that my county (Hays), and many others use Vote Centers now.

Still, Vote Centers set in areas with few people with transportation will be shorted voting machines compared to the areas of town where voters don't need to wait in line because they can drive somewhere with a shorter line. But maybe that provisions effects won't be nearly as bad as the Rs wanted.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. The GOP is the party of voter suppression

Link to tweet

[YoshidaYui]

17. You know what? All of this shit will come to a head

and there will be massive unrest ...and violence.... and we may end up seeing a civil war... its Democracy vs Tyranny.